Yet, In Death

In life you sustained
softness
by attachment.
False freedom from
a fixed stem
allowed to
join the breeze
but from your branch.

A whole life,
lived?

Yet, in death
you weave
within whisps of air
across a path
or pile.
Your heaping adventures
chip away
as little bits
toward nothing.
Until a once fastened
stem remains.
Your empty ghost.
Pieces
scattered
along the adventures of

an afterlife.

Chalkabration: April 2017

Welcome to Chalkabration's new home! I hope you had a wonderful month of poetry throughout April. My students and I celebrated at the end of last week. I hope you will join me today with your own Chalkabration poem! Share your own or your classroom's celebration with a link to your blog post in the comments. Another way to share your chalk poem is to visit the I Think in Poems Facebook page and share your image in a post or Tweet your poem's image with #chalkabration.

For more information regarding Chalkabration, click the tab at the top of this page!

To see my student's poems in chalk, click here.

Here is a first-grade classroom from my school celebrating with their acrostic poem!